+1

--peter

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:59 AM, James Snell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, this is something that has bugged me for quite a white... the atom:icon
> and atom:logo elements are terribly underspecified as just a simple IRI.
> Those these really should be link objects. What I'd like to propose is a
> deprecation of those elements in favor of <link rel="icon" href="..." /> and
> <link rel="image" href="..." />. The icon and image rel attributes would be
> added to the registry of link relations...
> So instead of..
> <feed>
>   <icon>http://.../image.jpg</icon>
>   ...
> </feed>
> It would be...
> <feed>
>   <link rel="icon" href="http://.../image.jpg"; type="image/jpeg" />
>   ...
> </feed>
> The nice thing about this approach is that it does not actually require any
> changes to the spec. The icon and image rel values would be added to the
> registry and implementations would need to be modified to look for them as
> an alternative to the icon and logo elements.
> Thoughts?

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